Forum Overview :: BioShock
 
eh by FABIO 12/28/2008, 10:26pm PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

FABIO wrote:

A fetch quest worse than anything in SS2, even the easter egg hunt.

Remember when you had to chase down 3 red ninja bots? They'd run down a corridor and eventually stop.

Here in Bioshock you have to hunt down all sorts of items without being told where they are, including ones held by teleporting guys who'll disappear to another part of the level if they spot you. Oh yeah and there's ragdolls, so GOD HELP YOU if some blast sends their corpse into an inaccessible spot. All this so the totally fucked city doesn't run out of oxygen.


Would you say you mostly liked the game? I loved it, but it was mainly because of the combat options I had with the plasmids and such. The story was nice, but it was for a video game, so the scale is different. I also have not played more than an hour or two of System Shock 2, so I was not able to recognize the shitty things they may have carried over. But I am curious as to your overall impressions, or things that drove you crazy.


ICJ


System Shock 2's atmosphere had me terrified for the first hour or two before all the bullshit gameplay started getting to me. Even then the audio logs were still a highlight.

Bioshock's atmosphere was creepy up until the first hook slicer...5 minutes into the game. The build up to the first Big Daddy fight was kind of tense, the drill daddy an intense fight, but then they scrap the drill for all those boring rivet gun ones. The single Ayn Rand joke isn't nearly that clever to be stretched out over 10 hours.

I had to put it down for an entire month. Whenever I mulled picking it up again, I remembered that I was on the "find 5 chlorophyll vials and 10 water flasks" quest and loaded something else up instead. The audio logs kept me going through SS2. In Bioshock all I have to look forward to is more "unrestrained capitalism is bad" jokes and cribbed Fallout humor.

I just got to the crazy artist guy, which seems a tad more interesting. I'll probably finish it some day.
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5 bux on meats NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/28/2008, 4:19pm PST NEW
    Try to find a god cheat and blaze through the "save the trees" quest by FABIO 12/28/2008, 9:38pm PST NEW
        Re: Try to find a god cheat and blaze through the "save the trees" quest by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/28/2008, 9:40pm PST NEW
            eh by FABIO 12/28/2008, 10:26pm PST NEW
                "omg they want me to look for an item? I REFUSE" *keyboard goes sailing* NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/28/2008, 11:42pm PST NEW
                    Fed exing was the best part of Planescape NT by FABIO 12/28/2008, 11:55pm PST NEW
                    *delicately floating keyboards* NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/29/2008, 12:30am PST NEW
                        I liked the artistry of the aerial twists, 9.5 by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/29/2008, 12:46am PST NEW
            I tried looking for some mods but unfortunately there's only one by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/28/2008, 11:41pm PST NEW
        lol a god cheat for bioshock is to turn the difficulty down to normal NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/28/2008, 11:47pm PST NEW
            Or easy or hard. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/29/2008, 12:31am PST NEW
                no easy its like fuckin I dunno developer debug mode by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/29/2008, 12:44am PST NEW
 
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